poetismn.

1848 A. H. Clough Corr. 16 July (1957) I. 215 Matt[hew Arnold]..has become sadly cynical again of late. However, I think the poetism goes on favourably.

1977 P. B. Medawar & J. S. Medawar Life Sci. ii. 23 The myth that geese might be born of such organisms as the attractive barnacle-like crustacean the goose barnacle, Lepas anatifera. Such notions belong to ‘poetism’.

1986 Cha Cha (Brisbane) 25 Apr. 10/2 There is a unity amongst most of this work that heralds a new stage in Brisbane poetry... ‘Poetism’ is certainly a growing force in Brisbane.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 July 27/2 The 1920's were a vital time in Prague, producing the poetism of Karel Teige.

1867 G. Meredith Vittoria I. xii. 202 Agostino smiles and chuckles, and talks his poetisms.

1951 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 10 225 Tuwim's language, too, is a very free mixture of poetisms, prosaisms, slang, sometimes almost independent of the ordinary vocabulary and the laws of syntax.

1962 Speculum 37 606 The result is a fairly good..enumeration of all the poetisms in the History.